• Booted up my old (5yr+) computer


• Was amazed at how fast it ran


• Got Gigabit Ethernet working on it FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER


• Replaced the power supply from my spares


• Found two 512MB ram chips for it in my spares


• Diagnosed and tossed one bad ram chip


• Found a great keyboard in my spares


• Found a new mouse in my spares


• Diagnosed a dying second (20GB) hard-drive in the old computer


• Removed the second hard-drive


• Freed up enough space on the remaining 10GB hard drive for a 3GB Linux install (Ubuntu)


• Installed Ubuntu

• 18:23 @sacredenginex God Jeremy, you are hella emo... But it's actually kinda funny. I hope you're smiling as you tweet so I'm not a jerk. :) #

CR sees a prolonged recession despite the increase in numbers of existing home sales.  Why?  Because they're turning into rental units!  He sees the key to prosperity as "household formation" meaning we basically need more Heads of Households...  And you can't head up a household without a job.

House creation (residential investment) is incredibly expensive, thus it is also incredibly stimulative to the economy.  It creates lots of jobs.  Without homebuilding driving the recovery, what gets us out of the slump?

After reading some of the commentary regarding the housing starts report this morning, it might be useful to reiterate these three points:

•  Residential investment is the best leading indicator for the economy.
•  Residential investment will not recover rapidly because of the large overhang of existing vacant housing units.
•  Existing home sales are largely irrelevant for the economy.

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• 11:23 @Papi_Diablo You almost got it? Who wa you after? #
• 17:56 ZOMG WTF? Pink ATV. Spinning rims. #
• 18:03 There is apparently a rap concert I'm trying to drive through. But still. Hot Pink ATV, chromed out. Spinning rims. #

• 10:04 @nutmeg83 'Deepen' your connection with someone? This obviously means we need to Vauldrie. #
• 23:59 @sacredenginex Um, you seem a tad more impulsive..? Not really though. It seemed pretty much like you. #

• 13:50 @elgrandepapidia Oi! Lucas set you up too? Isn't this shite amazin'? #
• 19:20 @Papi_Diablo Italian spiderman? What the 'ell you talking about?? Do I need to google it? #
• 01:06 @Papi_Diablo The big daddy devil! #

• 19:40 Tried to sneak into the Anarchs' bar in Gainesville tonight. No parking. Bollocks:( the baroness is safe tonight!!! #
• 20:24 @nutmeg83 oi! Wanna join my pa--er--my 'gang'? #
• 20:35 @nutmeg83 Your cards don't know me, we never even met! Come on, luv, one drink from the cup and ye'll know I'd never betray ye. #
• 00:12 Time for a change up. I'm going to Illinois!! More of them werewolf people there... #furry #mff Sorry boys, gotta ditch Ocala this week. #

Catholic Church Rules Perjury Not A Mortal Sin

VATICAN CITY—The Vatican Synod of Bishops ruled Monday that perjury is not a mortal sin, downgrading the sin to venal."God and The Mother Church will be more than satisfied with a penance of 20 rosaries for any act of perjury," Cardinal Angelo Sodano said. "Any earthly prohibition against lying in a court of law has no relevance to the holy teachings of The Bible." The proclamation comes on the heels of last Friday's doctrinal clarification that adultery only occurs when both participants are adults.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.

• 20:10 Dear Twitter, today I practiced following Vivian Black around in obfuscate, not talking. She bought Ham for the Thanksgiving Ritae. Lolz. #
• 22:06 @sacredenginex Oi mate! 'ow's ye mum? #

Goldman Sachs abandons kittens (we’re not making this up)

Just when you think that Goldman can’t lose any more of its shine, The Villager newspaper of Lower Manhattan reports that the firm has neglected to pay the vet bills for homeless kittens found in its nearly-completed Battery Park City headquarters. An editorial offers an apology to America on behalf of the corporate behemoth:
“Since Goldman Sachs has been a big part of the Lower Manhattan fabric for almost a century and a half, we’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to the rest of the country on behalf of our neighbor, a financial giant personifying much of what is wrong on Wall St.
Before we get to the multibillion-dollar stuff, we’d first like to apologize that the firm has not yet paid a few thousand dollars of vet bills for the five kittens born in its headquarters building nearing completion in Battery Park City. In August, after our sister publication Downtown Express reported the kittens’ discovery, Goldman offered to pay the bills and encourage its employees to adopt the ‘BlackBerries.’
It may be just a matter of Goldman waiting to get the vet invoices — we can’t imagine they’d stiff kittens while writing out bonus checks worth $23 billion — but the cats still need adoptive homes. (Incidentally, anyone interested in one of these adorable kittens should e-mail their rescuer, the Brotmans, at rbrotpaw@aol.com.)”

Nice.
Read full story.

• 23:33 Wow. It totally slipped me brain that Ocala had its third bishop this year killed. Denara, Priest, and now Devon Mae. Wankers! #

• 23:50 Oh good heavens! Etruscan Buildings! I'm trapped in an allegorical dream sequence of Gehenna. And I'm speaking the Queens English!!! #
• 23:55 Palla Grande in Italy. Yay. #
• 00:20 Now I'm staring down a bunch of elder Assamites. And I'm no longer wearing Brujah clothes. It's so weird. :p #
• 00:22 I think I'm in Enoch. The one out of Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand. :p #
• 00:37 And now I'm in Reno... So confused...!! #
• 02:20 Oh! Oh! So now I almost know IC that the Tzimisce Koldun Archbishop performed the Vinc-breaker ritual. The one only Inq. and Nos anti have #
• 02:21 And that he performed it on another Sabbat member in the city to fake his death. #

And many other laws of the internet.

One of the OWBN Council threads is now at > 380 emails in length, and I notice two things:
1. No relation of council members to Hitler, or to Nazis in general.
2. The thread is still on topic.

This has never happened before.